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This profile provides information on starting a domiciliary care agency. It identifies the skills, qualifications, training and experience necessary to establish the enterprise, and provides an overview of the current market and key trading issues and the main legal considerations...

This profile looks at setting up a micro-brewery business. It considers the personal attributes necessary to run this type of business as well as the training available...

This factsheet describes what a business plan should include, how you should go about writing one and what you will achieve by doing so...

This profile provides information about starting up a children's indoor play area business. It describes the skills required, the training available, the current market trends, and some of the key trading issues...

This profile looks at setting up a residential care home for the elderly. It describes the skills needed, the training available, the current market trends, and some of the key trading issues...

This introductory guide outlines the kinds of questions your market research should address, and describes the main ways of carrying it out. It also introduces you to some popular sources of market information...

This profile looks at operating a recruitment agency (specialising in finding individuals to fill permanent vacancies) from a home office or managed workspace...

This profile looks at setting up in business as a children's day nursery. It considers the personal attributes necessary to run this type of business as well as the training available...

This factsheet outlines the legal requirements affecting any business involved with the preparation, serving, packaging or sale of food or drink...

This introductory guide looks at some of the most useful and productive sources of market and business information available to you, and explains how to gain access to them...